Business Intelligence: information for commissioning
Information will be crucial for the clinical commissioning groups that will be starting work in just three months’ time. Fiona Barr reports.
Feature
Hard Times
EHI Primary Care’s latest, exclusive survey of staff working in primary care IT shows that the reforms have been hard; and may yet take a greater toll. Fiona Barr reports.
Feature
Seven for ‘13
Ewan Davis looks back at 2012 and identifies the trends – from hackdays to open source to patient-held records – that will reshape NHS IT in 2013 and beyond.
Feature
Insider view: the curious case of the incentives
EHI editor Jon Hoeksma wonders why nobody from the Department of Health seems willing to publically champion its deal with CSC.
Feature
The holly and free wi-fi
John Popham is running a campaign to bring free wi-fi to hospitals. He tells Lis Evenstad that it can keep patients in touch with family and friends; particularly at Christmas.
Feature
The answers to the quiz of the year 2012!
A small but select band got all the answers right to eHealth Insider’s annual quiz of the year. Did you do as well as they did?
Feature
Look back, move forward
EHealth Insider asked NHS IT directors, GPs, opinion formers and a patient to look at the state of NHS IT at the end of 2012, and at what 2013 is likely to hold.
Feature
Twenty twelve
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ reforms became law, the government issued a new NHS IT strategy, CSC’s deal for the NME was on and off an finally on again, and the ICO got cross. Lyn Whitfield looks back at 2012.
Feature
Record takers
NHS North is encouraging local organisations to make a start on giving patients online access to their GP records; with the national deadline just two years away. Jon Hoeksma reports.
Feature
Why oh, why oh, wi-fi
Getting a wi-fi network to work in a hospital is a bigger challenge than you might think; yet there are real benefits for staff and patients of building on strong wireless foundations. Daloni Carlisle reports.
Feature